{"id":154120,"date":"2023-01-01T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-comet-not-seen-since-50000-years-will-be-visible-again-in-early-2023"},"modified":"2023-01-01T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:24:37","slug":"a-comet-not-seen-since-50000-years-will-be-visible-again-in-early-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-comet-not-seen-since-50000-years-will-be-visible-again-in-early-2023","title":{"rendered":"A comet not seen since 50,000 years will be visible again in early 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-comet-not-seen-since-50000-years-will-be-visible-again-in-early-20232.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet.<\/p>\n<p>A comet that last appeared in the night sky during the Ice Age will soon make a reappearance in February 2023, according to a NASA statement published last week. Called the C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet, it orbits the sun every 50,000 years. It will now pass within 26 million miles of Earth on February 1st, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be visible to the naked eye in mid-to-late January. The comet can be seen using binoculars and low-level telescopes when the skies are clear.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\/Dan Bartlett.<\/p>\n<p>Called the C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet, it orbits the sun every 50,000 years. It will now pass within 26 million miles of Earth on February 1st, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s called the C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet. A comet that last appeared in the night sky during the Ice Age will soon make a reappearance in February 2023, according to a NASA statement published last week. Called the C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet, it orbits the sun every 50,000 years. It will now pass within 26 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}